Last week, I attended the Experience Sales Day 2023 conference in Frankfurt to see how to level up my selling skills. This was my first in-person conference in 2023 and I really enjoyed seeing people in real life again.

Let's assume you have a sulu entity App\Entity\MyEntity defined and you want to add a reference to this other entity App\Entity\OtherEntity to it. Follow this blog post along to find out which steps you have to take.

A few years ago we switched projects from npm to yarn and in the near future, we will move to pnpm for several reasons (which will be explained in another blog post). Often we have to adapt the scripts in package.json to use the correct package manager.

The organizers of the PHP-Usergroup Münster are rebooting their in-person meetups again and invited me to speak at their meetup on the 26th of January 2023.

Captain Hook is my primary choice when it comes to managing Git Hooks. For a few days, Captain Hook supports PHP 8.2 - the latest and greatest PHP release.

Sometimes folders like node_modules consume too much space and then a small cleanup may be needed.

Earlier this year we decided to test Renovate to manage automated dependency updates in our self-hosted GitLab environment. Being able to run Renovate in our own environment and configure it to our needs made a lot of sense. Since we run our internal tooling on a Nomad cluster, we had to configure a Nomad job for Renovate.

In our current Sulu CMS project a requirement was to populate default data when a content editor did not provide all needed information, e.g. social sharing information or SEO-related configurations.

In our daily life as developers, we often do code reviews for changes by the other team members in projects. Until a few months ago the feedback was in pure text form and has often led to longer feedback loops because the intention of the written feedback was not always clear enough. Additionally, it was not directly visible, if there were any blockers, which would have to be resolved before the changes could be merged.

For a long time, we've been successfully using Apache and mod_authnz_ldap to secure some of our legacy applications. Our employees could easily log in via their LDAP credentials. And while it worked, it had its problems.

When we made the move to Office 365, it was clear that at some point our old LDAP infrastructure will be fully replaced with Azure Active Directory (AAD) but I haven't had a good replacement for our simple mod_authnz_ldap solution until I realized that Traefik EE comes with an OIDC middleware.